Quotes about Mercy
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
— John Calvin
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
— John Calvin
He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit
— John Calvin
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
— John Calvin
When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3—4).
— John Calvin
Give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.
— John Calvin
First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.
— John Calvin
Men are justified by believing, not by what they do. It is by faith they obtain grace: and grace cannot be earned as a payment for works.
— John Calvin
The sins of the saints are pardonable, not because of their nature as saints, but because they obtain pardon from God's mercy.
— John Calvin
Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.
— John Calvin
Now, it is beyond a doubt that the steps by which the Lord in his mercy consummates our salvation are these, "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified" (Rom. 8:30).
— John Calvin
But Scripture praises everywhere his pure and unmixed mercy, which does away with all merit.
— John Calvin